EUGENE -- In 2013, Arizona State ended Jason Calliste's season in the first round of the NIT. Tuesday night, Oregon's transfer guard doesn't want to give the Sun Devils the chance to stop the Ducks' NCAA Tournament momentum, too.

The Ducks (20-8, 8-8 Pac-12) as a whole would like to pay the Sun Devils back this week.

"I hate Arizona State. They beat me in the first round of the NIT last year and ended my season, they beat us this year. I owe them."

Two days after its two-point loss to No. 2 Arizona, Oregon trailed by 20 points at halftime at ASU before storming back to lead late in the second half on the back of Joseph Young's 29 points in the final 20 minutes. Trailing by two points on the game's final possession, Young made a backdoor cut along the baseline, received a pass and was just inches from the rim and a tie before Jordan Bachynski ended the game with his ninth block.

"Bachynski is the worst one," Calliste said. "The last two times I’ve played them he’s been killing us with his size. He’s a shot blocker, he’s a scorer, he’s a load, so I mean we‘ve got to contain him. We can deal with (Jahii) Carson, we’ve just got to contain Bachynski.

"We’ve got good guards, we’ve got (Dominic Artis) playing great 'D' on Carson and Johnny (Loyd) and anybody can guard Carson but Bachynski is the hardest."

As the best shot blocker in conference history, Bachynski's presence looms large ahead of Tuesday's game but it hasn't done much to sway UO's game plan away from him -- at either end. On defense, Oregon senior Mike Moser said the Ducks must pressure ASU's tall wing players in order to "limit his catches." On offense, Young said he won't hesitate trying a similar play, adding that Oregon will attempt to get him in foul trouble by driving toward Bachynski's farthest foot from the rim and forcing contact.

"He’s going to give us problems because defensively he is so good, all the blocked shots, but you’ve still got to take it in there and still have to take it at him," Altman said. "He’s really done a great job this year. ... There’s no doubt somebody’s going to work with him and bring him along in the NBA."

Oregon's five-game winning streak since the loss to Arizona State (21-8, 10-6) has UO .500 in Pac-12 play for the first time in almost exactly three months, and Tuesday's 8 p.m. game at Matthew Knight Arena begins a two-game homestand to close the regular season. It will be crucial for Oregon's NCAA Tournament chances. ASU is 4-5 on the road this season.

"It’s two tough games that we want to get and we’re just trying to play with a sense of desperation," said Moser, who was named Pac-12's player of the week Monday.

Projections released by ESPN and CBS on Monday afternoon each have the Ducks as double-digit NCAA seeds. Staying in the tournament picture will require a far different effort than the first meeting, however, in which Oregon played like a team possessed in the second half after sleepwalking through the first when it shot 25 percent and allowed Bachynski 18 points.

Moser said UO has yet to play a "complete game" on defense. Just last week Oregon allowed USC, the worst scoring team per-game in the conference, to hang around late into the second half. And two days before that, UCLA forced overtime when Oregon's defense allowed a game-tying three-pointer with just 1.3 seconds left.

"We’ve played hard, we haven’t played smart all the time," Altman said. "… I haven’t been displeased with their effort for the most part. Now, we’ve had some segments I have been, but for the most part we played fairly hard. We just haven’t played together at times and we’ve made really bad decisions."

On Tuesday, the search for a complete, 40-minute game continues. Finding motivation against Arizona State, however, won't be as hard for the Ducks.